{"id":206236,"date":"2025-09-04T06:04:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T04:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibians-abroad-shine-ahead-of-world-cup-qualifiers\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T06:04:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T04:04:50","slug":"namibians-abroad-shine-ahead-of-world-cup-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibians-abroad-shine-ahead-of-world-cup-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibians Abroad Shine Ahead of World Cup Qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\"><em>In a week that Peter Shalulile made history in South Africa by breaking Siyabonga Nomvethe&#8217;s all-time PSL goalscoring record, Namibia&#8217;s other foreign-based professionals also delivered standout performances.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">This is as they&#8217;re gearing up for the upcoming Fifa World Cup 2026 Qualifiers against Malawi and S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Brave Warriors coach Collin Benjamin has emphasised that the national team will rely heavily on the form and match fitness of its foreign-based players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509030458.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a week that Peter Shalulile made history in South Africa by breaking Siyabonga Nomvethe&#8217;s all-time PSL goalscoring record, Namibia&#8217;s other foreign-based professionals also delivered standout performances. This is as they&#8217;re gearing up for the upcoming Fifa World Cup 2026 Qualifiers against Malawi and S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe. Brave Warriors coach Collin Benjamin has emphasised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":206237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,7019,6674,724,7974,257,7318,11202,254,5093],"class_list":["post-206236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-cup","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibians","tag-news","tag-qualifiers","tag-shine","tag-south-africa-today","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}